Is TDD dead?

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ollysb · 2015-02 · Strong recommendation

I can't recommend the discussion between Kent Beck, David Hansson and Martin Fowler enough. They look at how and where it should be used and in particular discuss their approach to mocking which I feel is an often misunderstood tool. Part 1 - [VIDEO] Part 2 - [LINK] Part 3 - [LINK] Part 4/5 - [LINK]

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MarquesMa · 2022-06 · Reference

It says that "Nintendo" or "任天堂" the brand name refers to an old Chinese saying "謀事在人，成事在天" which means "Man proposes, God disposes", or "do your best and leave it to the fate". The idea is not far from the stoic ones - try your best and stop worrying. It's like an idea from this classic debate on TDD [0]: Unit tests make you confident. You write it, you forget it. It makes you sleep at night. In my first few years of my career, I was constantly and unconsciously thinking about the code, the business requirement, the team, even outside the working hours. That stressed and drained me a lot. In the end I realized I shouldn't have done that. If I am to worry about those things, I just book myself a calendar and go over those things within the time-box. If I need more time, I book another time block for the next day - as simple as that. Now write that "unit test", forget it, and sleep well at night. If you really need to worry about them, you should have a "quarterly/monthly worrying day" to reflect about your life, your career, strategies and all that. Outside that day, you just live your happy life. [0] [VIDEO]

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dhzhzjsbevs · 2022-04 · Reference

Hot take. Unit testing is not overrated, if you feel this way you likely just suck at optimising your suite for high RoI tests or chase some stupid metric like code coverage getting mad when you find out you wasted a bunch of time writing worthless tests. [VIDEO]

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